There’s a quiet revolution happening in the river cruising sector. Whereas ocean cruising has attracted a much younger clientele over recent years, river cruising has found it hard to shake off its traditional, genteel...
Chips with everything.
Yes, the offending item in the photo is a half-eaten chip pizza. Oh the shame. There we were, in France, the home of gastronomy and my son was tucking into a monstrous affront to cuisine....
….Recycling Hell
Responsible tourism is the new thing. Well we were being responsible tourists by not flying to France but that was only because we wouldn’t have been able to fit all our duvets and pillows...
Mum’s Gone to the Dordogne – Where’s Willy?
A few days into our holiday and it was piddling outside. I wasn’t expecting this and was most annoyed. Caravans are cold at night anyway and this weather wasn’t helping the general misery we were feeling in...
Mum’s Gone to the Dordogne – Flirting with Frenchmen
I do love a good guide book. For this holiday I bought one of the Footprint travel guides for the Dordogne and Lot, written by Michael Pauls and Dana Facaros. Their style of writing...
Mum’s Gone to the Dordogne – 101 uses for Duck Tape
When my husband comes home from work of an evening his first thought isn’t to get the hoover out or dust the skirting boards. On holiday, however, he becomes a bit fanatical about cleanliness, probably...
Mum’s Gone to the Dordogne – Peripherique ou non?
In order to get to this hut on the left, we had to drive about three hours in England, half an hour on Eurotunnel and an eternity in France, stopping off for a night in...
Mum’s Going to the Dordogne
This weekend I have been mostly washing clothes, putting them on the line then running outside to rescue them from the downpour which has appeared out of the ether. I am ironing, folding and...